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Gee, I can’t understand why people hate the federal government so much! Have you heard about the new Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) requirements? This is a new mandate by the…
“Another bad decision is that I didn’t move any of my money from a traditional 401(k) to a Roth 401(k). Neither did my husband. So we have to take more withdrawals than we need right now and pay…
Lazard chief executive Peter Orszag recently published an opinion piece in the Washington Post that exists as an essential economics lesson for left-leaning Keynesian economic thinkers, along with…
In the 1860s the first transcontinental cable was laid on the ocean floor. While it miraculously connected North America with Europe, communication via the connection was only affordable to the…
Jake Paul won the good businessman and marketing genius award, Tyson won the respect award. When I was at Virginia, everyone in my fraternity had to box. The reasoning is a complete man…
Bitcoin in its present, high-profile form cannot be money. About the previous assertion, it should in no way be taken as a knock on crypto, or private money more broadly. Evidence supporting the…
Jack Ryan is passionate about expanding access to housing. Ryan’s passion makes him ideal as HUD secretary for the incoming Trump administration. To which some will respond that what Ryan believes in…
I’ll be glad when this super moon is over. I never once saw my dad unhinged or in any state of mind where his emotion got in the way of reason. My mother (bless her soul), not so…
It’s always amusing to read about businesses said to possess so-called “monopoly” power in the U.S., or much more disturbingly, about accusations of “monopoly” power from the ankle biters inside the…
Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane has long said in print, on television and in person that a focus on economic growth misses the point. Paraphrasing Crane, if the people are free they’ll have all…
Three months ago, Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro publicly de-installed “WhatsApp” and instructed his followers to do the same following a presidential election international observers fear was…
A recent front page story in the Wall Street Journal told the story of a courageous entrepreneur who impressively got in the proverbial door with Costco. She had what Journal reporter Ruth Simon…
Every so often it’s useful to quote arguably the most important passage from Wall Street Journal reporter Craig Karmin’s 2008 book, Biography of the Dollar. Karmin noted that prior to 1971, there…
Warren Buffett has famously said that “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.” Buffett’s wise words rate prominent mention in light of a disturbing pattern of corporate…
November 12, 2024 Dear Don: The reign of Terror is over. The Committee of Public Safety has been abolished. Robespierre is gone. The Jacobins’ clothes are smattered with the blood of…
Promoting his new book over the summer, economist Ruchir Sharma managed to get one of its main themes splashed all over the media: “When the price of borrowing money is zero, the price of everything…
“I saw a little piano in the room and I closed the door. Something said to me, ‘Idiot, go back in that room!’ I went back in the room and touched the piano…and every drop of blood in my body said,…
“Get out of the car! Get the f**k out of my car.” That’s a paraphrase of the words of the recently passed, and incomparably GREAT Bernie Marcus. Marcus, along with Arthur Blank and Ken Langone,…
Donald Trump indicted the Biden-Harris economy when making his case to voters; and it proved to be a winning message. Now it’s time to deliver. President Trump should first seek to undo the damage…
Flipping through the channels on election night, I was reminded of the Dallas Cowboys winning their second straight Super Bowl in 1994. A friend of mine who truly loathed the Cowboys (the Oilers were…
Who manages the Yankees? Or the Dodgers? By the conclusion of the 1977 World Series, managers Tommy Lasorda (Dodgers) and Billy Martin (Yankees) were household names. So were the players. It’s easy…
“I’m way too smart for Barack Obama, and I was way too smart for George W. Bush.” Those were the words of Houston businessman Ron Farmer in February of 2009. Keep the time when Farmer said what he…
Truth Social faces scrutiny after its users fell for a variety of scams on its platform, resulting in losses of up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. For context, an estimated $10 billion was lost…
Whether it’s actual inflation, or the kind of “inflation” that only economists and their media enablers tend to imagine it to be, a consensus invariably emerges that the Federal Reserve must “raise…
